Faculty

Faculty Salary Study (AAUDE)

(as reported to the Association of American University Data Exchange.)

Faculty Salary Study (AAUDE) is similar to the Oklahoma State Faculty Salary Study. The data is aggregated by CIP code for full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty. Comparisons are made to our Vision 2020 peer institutions showing the percentage strength of TAMU average salaries to Vision 2020 peers average salaries.

Production

Faculty Salary Study (AAUDE) is published during the summer with the most recent fall salary data. The report is made available once AAUDE peer data have been received, verified and proofread.

Approximate Availability

Fiscal Year – August 31

Available Editions

Faculty Salary Study (5 year, OSU)

(as submitted to the Oklahoma State University Survey)

Faculty Salary Study (OSU) report shows average faculty salaries by rank, by college and by department and compares Texas A&M average salaries to average salaries for peer institutions. The peers vary by college and a peer listing is included in the report. Salaries are 9-month FTE and exclude administrators and department heads. The report also includes five-year line graphs of university average salaries, peer average salaries and the Peer Group index.

Production

Faculty salary data is extracted from the budget each fall semester and is used to generate the TAMU information in the TAMU Faculty Salary Study. Average salaries from peer institutions are received via a special study done by Oklahoma State University and the comparison report is produced in the Spring semester.

Instructional Faculty Profile Report

Instructional Faculty Reported to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - includes all faculty members who were reported on CBM-008 report to the THECB, e.g. each person who has a faculty appointment for the fall semester or paid from faculty salary funds, as well as all faculty (including teaching assistants) who are teaching a course reported to the THECB. For this population the metrics include head count, teaching FTE, average salary, average age, average years of experience at Texas A&M as well as average years of total experience. These metrics are summarized by various demographic categories (ethnicity, gender, tenure status) and shown for each college and rank.

Additionally, each report file contains detailed definitions of important terms and variables contained in the report.

Production

Faculty Profile Report for each fall semester is usually produced towards the end of the following spring semester. The report is based on certified faculty data from the DARS data warehouse as well as additional Faculty data obtained from the Dean of Faculties office.

Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR)

Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR) is a compilation of reports designed to provide departments and colleges with a comprehensive overview of their teaching effort.

STAR consists of two major parts. The first part contains teaching summaries shown by college, department, funding area, and level. Each summary displays total Semester Credit Hours (SCH) and Weighted SCH (WSCH) generated by the college or department as well as number of bonus WSCH gained by tenured faculty (Teaching Supplement [1]) and lost due to Excess PhD[2] students. The result of the calculation is the Net WSCH for that college or department. Also displayed are the teaching Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) and salaries paid to faculty members and teaching assistants, which allows for computation of cost per SCH and per WSCH by the college or department. Aside from actual numbers, percentage change from the previous like semester is also shown for the high-level reports (to department level only), as well as the actual numeric change.

The second part of the report is the detailed Teaching Load Report. This section provides individual departments with a complete listing of every faculty member or graduate assistant who either participates in teaching any of the department’s courses, or is paid by the department. Each instructor’s courses and the SCH generated by each course are displayed, as well as the total FTE for the instructor and the salary paid by the department.

[1] Teaching Supplement – Every lower level course taught by a tenured or tenure-track faculty member receives a specified percentage as bonus hours.
[2] Excess PhD – Credit hours by doctoral students whose number of attempted hours exceeds the limit set by the Coordinating Board. These hours are ineligible to receive State funding and are therefore ‘lost’ by the University.

Production

STAR report is published each fall, spring, and summer (combined, unduplicated) semesters. Additionally, the report is published for the entire fiscal year.

Faculty Workload Report

Faculty Workload Report shows which TAMU faculty members are in compliance or not in compliance with the minimum workload requirements approved by the Texas A&M Board of Regents. Three times a year (fall, spring and summer) the departments review and make corrections to the course and faculty data used to generate this report through an on-line web application. This application is password protected; new department heads must contact DARS for a password and instructions on accessing the system. The data is usually available for update on-line five working days after the 20th class day. The Faculty Workload Report is not required in the summer but the corrected course and faculty data are used to generate other reports (i.e. STAR and reports to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board).

The report consists of several sections. The first section is a listing of faculty members not in compliance for the current semester and it includes their SSN, budget data, teaching data and the reason for non-compliance. The next section is a university summary, which shows the total classroom teaching credits (CTC), total teaching credits (TTC) (including equivalent teaching credits), faculty FTE and the percent of classroom teaching credits to total teaching credits. The same data is provided for each college by department. The last section of the report shows an individual listing of faculty members and GAT’s by department. It shows their classroom and equivalent teaching credits, and their compliance status and reason for non-compliance if applicable.